Sea Monsters: Search for the Giant Squid

00:00:05 On Mexico's Sea of Cortez a marine

00:03:43 Superstitious sailors reported many strange sightings at sea.

00:05:40 It deploys a writhing mass of suckered arms and tentacles

00:07:21 Captain Nemo's electric submarine.

00:09:34 portrayed as a villain in many tales of the sea.

00:11:08 called chromatophores, are scattered across their skin.

00:13:07 which grows up to 15 feet;

00:16:17 Mexico's Sea of Cortez:

00:18:26 Some might consider this an experience to be avoided;

00:21:29 in the thrill of the hunt for big

00:23:18 into an area of the United States picked at random -

00:25:18 leaving observing scientists excited - and a bit relieved.

00:26:46 And Clarke amassed a huge collection of beaks -

00:28:23 So, it's very, very long and narrow.

00:29:55 Hydrophones can detect the sounds of sperm whales from several miles away

00:32:30 and most of it is nose - the largest in the animal kingdom.

00:34:48 The mother can go down more than half a mile

00:36:27 To follow whales into the deep

00:38:12 The scientists are hopeful that the camera can survive a deep water dive

00:40:25 A successful deployment depends entirely on the whims of the whales.

00:42:53 these mountains of movement.

00:46:03 No one has conclusively identified these sounds with sperm whales before.

00:48:07 That's fantastic, that's so...

00:50:06 and how the animal actually behaves down in those depths."